stress

For short-term tummy filling, just keep making cups and cups of tea (herbal or decaf if you need!) without sugar or milk. After a week, it stops tasting nasty and you actually start to crave it as a treat (try it! it works!)

Long term stress relief: exercise hard and regularly.

After a 13 year long time with depression and severe anxiety, and severe stress (moved to another country while my mom was dying of brain cancer, lost my home, my friends, my job, just about everything! and had no support from a single human being, not a friend, not family, not a doctor or counselor or priest!) I finally got a handle on things last August when I started exercising like 5 times a week. The first week was "oh this sucks! I hate exercise!" and the 2nd and 3rd weeks were "hey, I've done 2 weeks and this is getting easier - this exercise isn't quite as miserable as it was last week!" and by the 5th week, my mood had improved. About 2 months in, I realized one day that I hadn't been sad or mad or scared for over a month! I found that as long as I continued to exercise regularly, all my stress etc. was so much better, not yelling at the kid or the dogs anymore, not needing a whole pack of cookies every day to soak up the stomach acid from the stress, not needing 4 beers every night just to calm down. Exercise was my "cure." And tea. (and diet soda but I don't recommend that. I am trying to give it up!)

My Dad was a professional wrestler back in the day and he always said if you want a good night's sleep, exercise. It helps so many things.

For short-term tummy filling, just keep making cups and cups of tea (herbal or decaf if you need!)

I do this a lot. It becomes a routine and soothes me. I am horrid at coping with stress so I may not be the best to give advice. I would love to tell you to get some fresh air and walk but at 1am and traveling I just want you to be safe.

For helping vent, a journal or diary is a good start. I also keep a stash of bad day movies that I can just veg out get lost in, same with some books. It is my way of running away from problems I can't actually run away from.

I hope things settle down for you and if you are stuck in your truck you can try guided imagery or guided meditation tracks. Those can really help relax you if you practice.

Best of luck.

Netflix, shopping (if you got the dollas! lol), exercise, hanging out with friends, surfing the net, oh and sleep!

Do you have a way to exercise at 1 am in the morning? I would highly recommend it, preferably with music.

I hate to say this but I've started shopping and also i have taken up some new hobbies. So I go on Pinterest and i find something fun to make. I started making wine in my house too since it takes so long to ferment, I've started gardening, and i also keep a jar of positive things I love about myself and things I am thankful for and pull it out when I'm stressed. Some of this stuff might sound silly but it gets me through it. I actually had a binge for two days and the second day I realized that I was emotional eating because of something that happened at work.

Also when I'm feeling better I write a note to my future self. So that when I want to binge eat I can read the letter and understand what i need t do.

I know it sounds crazy but these work for me. Hang In there!~